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| | | In what torn ship soever I embark, |
| | | That ship shall be my emblem of thy ark; |
| | | What sea soever swallow me, that flood |
| | | Shall be to me an emblem of thy blood; |
| 5 | | Though thou with clouds of anger do disguise |
| | | Thy face; yet through that mask I know those eyes, |
| | | Which, though they turn away sometimes, |
| | | They never will despise. |
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| | | I sacrifice this island unto thee, |
| 10 | | And all whom I loved there, and who loved me; |
| | | When I have put our seas ’twixt them and me, |
| | | Put thou thy sea betwixt my sins and thee. |
| | | As the tree’s sap doth seek the root below |
| | | In winter, in my winter now I go, |
| 15 | | Where none but thee, th’eternal root |
| | | Of true love I may know. |
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| | | Nor thou nor thy religion dost control, |
| | | The amorousness of an harmonious soul, |
| | | But thou wouldst have that love thyself; as thou |
| 20 | | Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now, |
| | | Thou lov’st not, till from loving more, thou free |
| | | My soul. Who ever gives, takes liberty; |
| | | O, if thou car’st not whom I love |
| | | Alas, thou lov’st not me. |
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| 25 | | Seal then this bill of my divorce to all, |
| | | On whom those fainter beams of love did fall; |
| | | Marry those loves, which in youth scattered be |
| | | On fame, wit, hopes (false mistresses) to thee. |
| | | Churches are best for prayer that have least light; |
| 30 | | To see God only I go out of sight; |
| | | And to ’scape stormy days, I choose |
| | | An everlasting night. |
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Contributed by Robert Clark.
